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Deuteronomy 19:14 You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which
the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land
that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
There is no necessity for the Gentile believer to know the Law of the land of Israel.
The laws of the nations address property lines, deeds and transfer of title (inheritance).
What you do need to understand from this statute is that attempting to move your
neighbor’s landmark is stealing, and that is covered by the Ten.
The Law teaches it is wrong to steal, that it is sin that leads to death. The conscience
can convict someone about stealing, even without the Law.
Romans 2:
14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law,
these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves,
15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing
witness, and between themselves (their thoughts accusing or else excusing them).
Now make note that the verse that precedes this statement is routinely used by some
to express the opinion that they must keep the law of Moses.
Romans 2:13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the
doers of the law will be justified).
Taken out of context, this ignores the fact that Paul goes on to say that you cannot
be justified by Law. When the following two verses are taken into consideration, what
he is actually saying is that it is not necessary to have ever even heard of the Law
of Moses to know from experience that stealing is wrong. People through the ages have developed a conscience from experience and establish a law unto themselves,
or they harden their hearts to sin. The problem is “the deceitfulness of sin”. Hebrews 3:13
Moving an ancient landmark is fairly blatant! But did you know that unnecessary
possessions and ostentatious materialism is stealing from the poor in the eyes of God?
Isaiah 3:
14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders of His people and His princes.
For you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
15 What do you mean by crushing My people and grinding the faces of the poor?
says the Lord God of hosts.
If you are a business owner and you pay your employees minimum wage by the law,
when by your conscience you understand that they deserve more, you are robbing
the laborer of his fair wages in the eyes of God.
Leviticus 19:13 You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of them
who are hired shall not remain with you all night until morning.
Try keeping that law in our twice a month payday world!
Isaiah 10:
1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, who write misfortune,
they have prescribed. (on pretense robbing widow's houses!)
2 To rob the needy of justice, and to take what is right from the poor of My people,
that widows may be their prey, and they may rob the fatherless.
Withholding charity, whether that required by the law of Moses or the dictates
of conscience is not only taking from the poor, it is robbing God,
who avenges the poor.
Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say,
In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.
The titles and offerings in the temple storehouse were earmarked for the poor,
the widow, the orphan, the stranger, and the needs of the priesthood.
James 4:17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it,
to him it is sin.
Even showing favoritism is a form of stealing, and makes one a lawbreaker.
James 2:
5 Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich
in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you
into the courts?
7 Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?
8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your
neighbor as yourself,” you do well;
9 but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law
as transgressors.
Failure to preach the Gospel to the poor is disobedience to the Spirit.
Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed
Me to preach good tidings to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
The Law written on hearts convicts the conscience of sin. By this we are to keep the Law,
but we are to preach and teach the Gospel. No one was ever instructed to preach the Ten.
Failure to preach the Gospel is stealing.
Romans 2:21 You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself?
You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?
CLV
21 You, then, who are teaching another, you are not teaching yourself!
who are heralding not to be stealing, you are stealing!
the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land
that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
There is no necessity for the Gentile believer to know the Law of the land of Israel.
The laws of the nations address property lines, deeds and transfer of title (inheritance).
What you do need to understand from this statute is that attempting to move your
neighbor’s landmark is stealing, and that is covered by the Ten.
The Law teaches it is wrong to steal, that it is sin that leads to death. The conscience
can convict someone about stealing, even without the Law.
Romans 2:
14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law,
these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves,
15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing
witness, and between themselves (their thoughts accusing or else excusing them).
Now make note that the verse that precedes this statement is routinely used by some
to express the opinion that they must keep the law of Moses.
Romans 2:13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the
doers of the law will be justified).
Taken out of context, this ignores the fact that Paul goes on to say that you cannot
be justified by Law. When the following two verses are taken into consideration, what
he is actually saying is that it is not necessary to have ever even heard of the Law
of Moses to know from experience that stealing is wrong. People through the ages have developed a conscience from experience and establish a law unto themselves,
or they harden their hearts to sin. The problem is “the deceitfulness of sin”. Hebrews 3:13
Moving an ancient landmark is fairly blatant! But did you know that unnecessary
possessions and ostentatious materialism is stealing from the poor in the eyes of God?
Isaiah 3:
14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders of His people and His princes.
For you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
15 What do you mean by crushing My people and grinding the faces of the poor?
says the Lord God of hosts.
If you are a business owner and you pay your employees minimum wage by the law,
when by your conscience you understand that they deserve more, you are robbing
the laborer of his fair wages in the eyes of God.
Leviticus 19:13 You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of them
who are hired shall not remain with you all night until morning.
Try keeping that law in our twice a month payday world!
Isaiah 10:
1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, who write misfortune,
they have prescribed. (on pretense robbing widow's houses!)
2 To rob the needy of justice, and to take what is right from the poor of My people,
that widows may be their prey, and they may rob the fatherless.
Withholding charity, whether that required by the law of Moses or the dictates
of conscience is not only taking from the poor, it is robbing God,
who avenges the poor.
Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say,
In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.
The titles and offerings in the temple storehouse were earmarked for the poor,
the widow, the orphan, the stranger, and the needs of the priesthood.
James 4:17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it,
to him it is sin.
Even showing favoritism is a form of stealing, and makes one a lawbreaker.
James 2:
5 Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich
in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you
into the courts?
7 Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?
8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your
neighbor as yourself,” you do well;
9 but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law
as transgressors.
Failure to preach the Gospel to the poor is disobedience to the Spirit.
Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed
Me to preach good tidings to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
The Law written on hearts convicts the conscience of sin. By this we are to keep the Law,
but we are to preach and teach the Gospel. No one was ever instructed to preach the Ten.
Failure to preach the Gospel is stealing.
Romans 2:21 You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself?
You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?
CLV
21 You, then, who are teaching another, you are not teaching yourself!
who are heralding not to be stealing, you are stealing!
